Feminist knowledge production in theory and practice - YBAJ239

• Title: Feminist knowledge production in theory and practice
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YMGS632
• Pre-requisite : YBAJ009
• Is incompatible with: YMGS632

Annotation

English

Last update: Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D. (15.01.2024)

‘The word “research” is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’s vocabulary’ (Smith 2012). This course examines some of the feminist and decolonial critique of extractivist knowledge practices and possible alternatives. Introducing key theoretical debate and engaging case studies, including works by M.A. students at the faculty, we are investigating how feminist and decolonial principles can be put into practice. Is knowledge from below better knowledge? How should we speak for or about others? Can feminist research be objective? How do we account for researcher positionality and what do we make of silences, refusal, and betrayals in research?

Syllabus

Last update: Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D. (15.01.2024)

Weekly programme

1.      Researcher-researched relations and dynamic objectivity

2.      Standpoint epistemologies

3.      Speaking for others

4.      Situated knowledges and the politics of location

5.      Research apparatuses and ontology

6.      Silences, betrayal, failures

7.      Mid-term Reading week

8.      Attending to what is withdrawn or inaccessible: interviews as poetry

9.      Drawings and graphic novels

10.   Archival research and speculation

11.   Diffractive readings

12.   Diffracting intersectionality

a detailed syllabus will be distributed at the first meeting.